Subj : What facility (syslog) to use for logging from routers?
To   : alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux
From : bob niederman
Date : Sat Jul 03 2004 04:13 pm

Right now I'm logging from our ~70 devices to local7 on a linux box.

I note that this conflicts with the boot log in /etc/syslog.conf:

local7.*     /var/log/boot.log

This causes the output of dmesg to contain lots of router stuff.

Aside from not choosng anything already referenced in syslog.cong, what
is the facility last likely to conflict with other (not yet configured)
apps?

example: I started googling around and found advice to configure LDAP to
local4.

Is there any way to know what other facilities "typically" get used,
local3 and/or local5 in particular?

Redhat 9 and/or RHEL 3 are likely targets.

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